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STEERING
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I. (noun)
Sense 1
Meaning:
The act of steering a ship
Synonyms:
steerage; steering
Classified under:
Nouns denoting acts or actions
Hypernyms ("steering" is a kind of...):
control (the activity of managing or exerting control over something)
Holonyms ("steering" is a part of...):
navigation; sailing; seafaring (the work of a sailor)
Derivation:
steer (direct the course; determine the direction of travelling)
Sense 2
Meaning:
The act of setting and holding a course
Example:
a new council was installed under the direction of the king
Synonyms:
Classified under:
Nouns denoting acts or actions
Hypernyms ("steering" is a kind of...):
control (the activity of managing or exerting control over something)
Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "steering"):
driving (the act of controlling and steering the movement of a vehicle or animal)
aim (the action of directing something at an object)
navigation; pilotage; piloting (the guidance of ships or airplanes from place to place)
celestial guidance (a method of controlling the flight of a missile or spacecraft by reference to the positions of celestial bodies)
inertial guidance; inertial navigation (a method of controlling the flight of a missile by devices that respond to inertial forces)
command guidance (a method of controlling the flight of a missile by commands originating from the ground or from another missile)
terrestrial guidance (a method of controlling the flight of a missile by devices that respond to the strength and direction of the earth's gravitational field)
Derivation:
steer (be a guiding or motivating force or drive)
Sense 3
Meaning:
The act of guiding or showing the way
Synonyms:
guidance; steering
Classified under:
Nouns denoting acts or actions
Hypernyms ("steering" is a kind of...):
direction; management (the act of managing something)
Derivation:
steer (direct the course; determine the direction of travelling)
II. (verb)
Sense 1
-ing form of the verb steer
Context examples:
There he lay, with that bald head across the knees of the man who had killed him and the quick fishes steering to and fro over both.
(Treasure Island, by Robert Louis Stevenson)
She found the pin with an adorable little cry, and I turned my attention more fully to my steering.
(The Sea-Wolf, by Jack London)
I discovered nothing all that day; but upon the next, about three in the afternoon, when I had by my computation made twenty-four leagues from Blefuscu, I descried a sail steering to the south-east; my course was due east. I hailed her, but could get no answer; yet I found I gained upon her, for the wind slackened.
(Gulliver's Travels into several remote nations of the world, by Jonathan Swift)
Doctor, when a man's steering as near the wind as me—playing chuck-farthing with the last breath in his body, like—you wouldn't think it too much, mayhap, to give him one good word?
(Treasure Island, by Robert Louis Stevenson)
I waited, watching two men who stood by the wheel, one of them steering.
(The Sea-Wolf, by Jack London)
“It does very well, it seems, though I am not versed in things nautical,” she said, nodding her head with grave approval at my steering contrivance.
(The Sea-Wolf, by Jack London)
After the simple breakfast, capped with a cup of cold water, Maud took her lesson in steering.
(The Sea-Wolf, by Jack London)
Wolf Larsen was steering, his eyes glistening and snapping as they dwelt upon and leaped from detail to detail of the chase.
(The Sea-Wolf, by Jack London)
“She must be a pretty old woman now,” he said, staring meditatively into the binnacle and then jerking a sharp glance at Harrison, who was steering a point off the course.
(The Sea-Wolf, by Jack London)
“But he won’t pull those chaps around, from the look of it,” he added, pointing at the Macedonia’s third boat, for which I had been steering and which was now nearly abreast of us.
(The Sea-Wolf, by Jack London)
